CA Defender, it wasn't just one guy in Kansas, the story indicates he was "inundated" with racist tweets.

I think this is news as it relates to the bigger issue in our society of racism on the internet.

Technology has given rise to anonymous opinions which indicate that our society has NOT progressed as much as we think - instead people have just learned to keep their racism under-wraps and only let it ooze out in cowardly anonymous internet posts.

This has been happening a lot lately, not just this one story. Another example is the cereal ad (Cheerios, I believe?) with the bi-racial parents who got so many unsavory comments from crude bigots that the cereal company had to disable their youtube comments.

I think it's a wake-up call for those who think racism is a thing of the past.

It's still quite alive and in fact thriving in our society, it's only been pushed under the rug a little bit.

What is the world coming to when ignorant back-woods filthy bigots think someone of a different nationality singing the star-spangled banner is the end of the world?

Grow up you fool, try focusing your attention on something that is actually capable of bringing the "end of the world", like the fact that the earth is warming and anthropogenic climate change could displace millions of people, bring economic despair, increase incidence of infectious diseases, and harm civilization significantly in our lifetimes. But I guess people like you are too butt-dumb to think like that and prefer focusing your attention on a Latino boy singing with pride a song about America.